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Police killed a man suspected of ties to Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants during a raid in a district near Ankara, security sources told Turkish media Wednesday.
The incident occurred during police raids early Tuesday, two weeks before the July 7-8 NATO summit in Ankara that world leaders from 32 nations, among them US President Donald Trump, will attend.
The shooting took place in Sazağası, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) south of the capital, during a simultaneous operation that saw police arresting more than 200 people, the DHA and IHA news agencies reported.
The suspect, M.K., was shot dead when a police special force unit raided a location where he was staying with his wife N.K.
The IHA news agency said the pair had opened fire first on the police, prompting a shootout.
“The police carried out an operation here, but I don’t know who the suspects are supposed to be linked to,” local neighborhood leader Nuri Demir told Agence France-Presse by phone.
“We saw ambulances transporting the wounded, but I don’t know anything else,” he added.
Contacted by AFP, neither Ankara’s provincial governor’s office nor the Ankara public prosecutor’s office would comment on the incident.
The prosecutor’s office had on Tuesday confirmed issuing warrants for 241 people, with counterterrorism police arresting 209 people in early morning raids in and around the city.
Of the total number sought for arrest, 56 were identified as ISIL suspects, while 185 were identified as belonging to several far-left organizations designated as terrorist groups by Ankara.
It was not immediately clear on Wednesday whether police had managed to apprehend any of the remaining 32 suspects.
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